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On 04/22/2016 10:10 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> 3) On Slide 9, you have this in "future work (in Newton)":
>
> "Tasks (asynchronous workflows) support."
>
> Please, please, please NO.
>
> There is absolutely no reason to couple a service that operates on
> artifacts in an asynchronous fashion with a service that provides
> metadata about those artifacts.
>
> It was a mistake to do this in Glance and it would be a mistake to do
> this in Glare. If you really want some async task processing function,
> create a totally separate service that does that. Don't put it in Glare.

+1000

The public task interface in glance is one of the worst user experiences 
in all of OpenStack. Luckily with the new image upload work we're moving 
to a place where tasks can go into a dark hole where they belong.